zbik

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See also: żbik and Żbik

Old Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From zdeb +‎ -ik.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /zbik/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /zbik/

Noun

zbik m animacy unattested

  1. wildcat (Felis silvestris)
    • 1915 [XV med.], Jan Łoś, editor, Przegląd językowych zabytków staropolskich do r. 1543, page 516:
      Zdbyk
      [Zdbik]

Descendants

  • Polish: żbik

References

  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “zbik”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN